Kamal Manahi Anbar, a 28 year-old trainee Iraqi journalist, was killed in crossfire during a US raid on a Baghdad mosque on March 26.
Anbar went to al-Mustafa al-Husseiniyah, a mosque and office complex, in Baghdad's Ur neighbourhood to research one of his first assignments as a journalist - about the displacement of Iraqi families since bombings created a volatile housing market and spiralling rent. He was killed during a two-hour gun battle.
He recently attended a training course run by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, an international network for media development. The IWPR described him as " a young journalist with enormous promise".
He married just six months ago and was looking forward to becoming a father - his wife is three months' pregnant.
Earlier this week Zaki Chehab, political editor of London-based Arab newspaper Al Hayat, told a Reuters conference on media coverage of the war in Iraq that news-gathering is now extremely difficult in the country. Chehab said it is unsafe for Arab or Iraqi journalists to travel outside Baghdad and they are increasingly working undercover.
As the security situation in Iraq deteriorates, the western media is becoming increasingly dependent on local journalists who are increasingly reporting on this war where western journalists can't.
At least 67 journalists have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in early 2003, and it is vitally important the work of local reporters is acknowledged.
